Florid and unusual alphabets /
"...this book contains 109 complete alphabets that are standouts in any context. Selected from four famous typographic albums of the nineteenth century, these letter designs represent great alphabets of earlier centuries and striking alphabets new in the last century. All are extravagant and wi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Dover Publications,
1976.
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| Series: | Dover pictorial archive series.
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| Summary: | "...this book contains 109 complete alphabets that are standouts in any context. Selected from four famous typographic albums of the nineteenth century, these letter designs represent great alphabets of earlier centuries and striking alphabets new in the last century. All are extravagant and wildly inventive. The 76 upper-case and 33 lower-case alphabets comprise animal and tree alphabets, human-figure and devils alphabets, pictorial and architectural-sculptural alphabets, "musical" alphabets, outré Roman and Gothics, shadowed, outline, foliated, ribbon, script, lapidary, and many other alphabets."--back cover. Collection of 190 decorative fonts for use in graphic design projects. |
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| Item Description: | "Individual items in the book are copyright-free, and may be used (up to 10 items per occasion) without further payment, permission or acknowledgment."--back cover. |
| Physical Description: | 89 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 31 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0486233049 9780486233048 |